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Y Combinator has invested $120,000 in Mac’d, a build-your-own mac and cheese restaurant that lets customers choose their own adventure from the beginning. I popped over to one of the Mac’d locations last week in San Francisco to get my mac on and chat with the founders.<p>For starters, the mac and …

Everybody knows that airbrushed skin and kookie filters on Instagram and Snapchat are fun to play around with when taking a selfie, but would you actually permanently alter your face for this effect? According to three Boston University researchers, many would.<p>Conducting an overview of industry …

In the very near future, robots are going to be picking the vegetables that appear on grocery store shelves across America.<p>The automation revolution that’s arrived on the factory floor will make its way to the ag industry in the U.S. and its first stop will likely be the indoor farms that are now …

On Sunday night's episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime show "Who Is America?" Cohen presented Jason Spencer, a Republican state representative from Georgia, with a chance to humiliate himself — and he took it.<p>Cohen donned the disguise of an Israeli antiterrorism expert named Col. Erran Morad and …

American swimmer Ryan Lochte has accepted a 14-month doping ban after he posted a picture on ­Instagram of himself and his wife receiving intravenous infusions, the United States Anti-Doping Agency has confirmed.<p>Just as former Arsenal and Manchester City midfielder Samir Nasri discovered when he …

I first met Inge Ginsberg, the 96-year-old who’s recently become something of a death metal music icon, on a sunny August afternoon at her home two hours upstate from New York City. I’d half expected to see a place filled with Metallica paraphernalia, but it was nothing like that. Instead it felt …

Remember the cinnamon challenge? Unknowing people on YouTube grabbed a teaspoonful of cinnamon and chugged it down before coughing up clouds of dust. It was stupid, but sometimes chuckle-worthy. Those were simpler times.<p>But as things often do, they escalated from there. There was the Kylie Jenner …

Looking for connections in 2018<p>When John Hopstad first descended into the virtual world of <i>Dark Souls</i> in 2013, his mission was to save a decaying world. Famed for its brutal and exacting gameplay, <i>Dark Souls</i> is a popular game to live stream: if you’re going to die hundreds of times, you might as well …

The kids know how to use Minecraft more than the teachers do. It inverts the relationship Sally Bushell, Lancaster University<p>Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1881 classic Treasure Island tells of Jim Hawkins’s adventures on board the Hispaniola, as he and his crew – along with double-crossing pirate Long …

Cohen — a consummate troll himself — is a perfect foil to the current political climate of grift and trolling.<p>While many journalists have risen to the occasion of the Trump era, the mainstream media as an institution has notoriously struggled to cover the message board misogynists, meme makers, …

Believe us: We’re doing you a favor.<p>We’re in the media business, so we’re aware when things start trending on Google, Twitter, and Instagram. Sometimes, we really wish we weren’t so plugged in. Because today, <b>we were unfortunate enough to chance upon the bizarre new trend of women wearing their</b> …